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Do you enjoy using digital imagery in your textile and fabric art? Learn how you can enhance your printed images using Golden Products "Digital Grounds".

This interactive multimedia DVD takes you on an exciting journey and shows you how you can print exceptional images on fabric using your inkjet printer. The journey begins by introducing you to the digital grounds in "The Basics" where you'll learn about the product and how to use it. Once you've mastered the basics, you can then move on to explore and experiment further with "Beyond The Basics" where you'll learn techniques for printing unique and unusual images both on fabric and textured backgrounds.

Included on the DVD:

• Approximately 2 hours of instructional video (broken into 18 short videos for easier viewing and comprehension)
• A 64 page pdf document containing step-by-step lessons for basic procedures, supply lists, product information and resources
• Over 100 full size sample photos

Download a demonstration version of the dvd (approx 32mb zip file) Right click and save to your desktop.
Please note: you will need the latest version of Adobe Reader to view the download.

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Find out more about digital grounds here.

Or view the introductory videos:
The Basics
Beyond The Basics

The "Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric" DVD contains two segments:

The Basics

• Fabric Testing Using Digital Grounds
  Determine which digital grounds works best with different types of fabrics

• Working with Sheers
  Special notes for working with sheers
• Negative Image Prints
  Don’t waste your printer ink!
• Making Fabric Skins
  Learn how to print on “unprintable” fabrics.
• Printing on Bare Skins
  Alternative to printing on fabric skins
• Water Testing Without a Sealer
  Learn how to test your prints for water resistance.
• Water Testing Using a Topcoat Sealer
  Learn how to seal and protect your fabrics.

Beyond The Basics

• Working with Fabric
  Explores printing on colored and/or patterned fabric, and making your own and printing on textured fabric including textured gels and pastes.
• Working with Skins
  Explores printing on fabric attached and/or embedded into acrylic skins, and making your own and printing on textured acrylic skins.
• Sealing Options
  Explores options for working with spray sealers.

Requirements for viewing DVD:

• Latest version of Adobe Reader

Needle felting machines have opened up a new and exciting world for textile and quilt artists.

Roving, fabric, fibers, yarns ... if it looks like it can be needle punched or felted it has become fair game for the machine needle felter.

This class is suitable for beginning machine needle felters as well as those beginning to explore what their needle felting machine is capable of. It takes you on a creative exploration of what is possible with these machines.

The DVD includes

• 130 page pdf workbook with step-by-step instructions for a variety of machine needle felting techniques and projects
• approximately 35 minutes of supporting video demonstrations
• over 240 full-size sample photos

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• Texturizing Fabrics & Backgrounds
• Layering Techniques
• Felting
• Entrapments
• Working with Paints and Dyes Part I: Fabric & Yarn
• Working with Paints and Dyes Part II: Roving & Felt
• Working with Heat
• Needle Felted Landscapes
• Special Applications: Two faux stained glass techniques, textural free form collage techniques, and needle felted appliques
• Putting It All Together

Download a demonstration version of the dvd (approx 7mb zip file) Right click and save to your desktop.
Please note: you will need the latest version of Adobe Reader to view the download.

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Requirements for viewing DVD:

• Latest version of Adobe Reader